By Austin W. Cox, HJHA Intern.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, staff and volunteers at the HJHA have been working incredibly hard to document this pandemic’s effects on the Jewish community. We have been posting on Instagram and Facebook every Thursday to showcase some of the new additions to the archive to our followers. We plan on continuing this every Thursday so make sure to follow us to keep up with them! Our last two Archive Thursdays are as follows:
The World War II service flag (pictured below) was the centerpiece of our March 11th post and is located in Fondren Library along with many other artifacts that make up the Houston Jewish History Archive.
On March 18th, we celebrated the story of three women in Houston who created the board game Tradition (pictured below), a Jewish version of Trivial Pursuit, which sold upwards of 17,000 copies. The creators of the game donated their archives to Fondren Library and the Houston Jewish History Archive, and Dr. Furman wrote about the making of the game and its significance for Tablet Magazine back in 2019: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/the-birth-of-tradition
